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ID Terms – 412-418 - AL

• steppes
• Mongols/Tatars
• "crane catching"
• Temujin/"Ocean King"/"Genghis Khan"
• khan
• Tengri
• Battles won:
  • Persia
  • Herat, Afghanistan
  • Baghdad – death of last caliph
• Matthew Paris - 1200s
• Elbe River
• Adriatic Sea
• failed invasions: (after Genghis Khan’s death)
  • Syria
  • India
  • Japan
• conquered China – 1279
• empire covered from "the Volga River to the Pacific, encompassing the whole of Russia, Persia, China, the Silk Roads, and the steppes"
• captured Gregorian capital, Tbilisi – 1234
• destroyed Song dynasty – 1270s
• failed to conquer:
  • Java
  • Japan
• Uighurs – pastoral, Turkic-speaking people who dominated the steppeland north of the Silk Roads for a hundred years from the 740s
• Changchun – 1219
• Hindu Kush mountains
• Gobi Desert

ID Terms – 418-422 - AL

• Jurchen, Khitan, and Tangut states
• Mongol peace (leads to highway police)
• Friar William of Rubruck – 1253
• Black Sea
• Karakorum
• Transoxiana
• Altai Shan
• Ancestal spirits
• shamans
• Möngke Khan
• Kubilai Khan – 1200s
• Marco Polo